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- Abilene Sheet
- Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
- Acetylene-Gas Generator
- Patent for an improved automatic acetylene-gas generator which allows the carbid vessel to recharge with carbid without permitting the escape of gas, and also to simplify the construction of the generator.
- Addington Sheet
- Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
- Adjustable Hame Fastner
- Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Hame-Fastner" (lines 6-6), including instructions and illustrations.
- Agricultural Implement.
- Patent for "attachments for planters, cultivators and the like" (lines 8-10) "whereby the implement will be permitted to yield to uneven ground" (lines 11-12).
- Andiron.
- Patent for improvement in andirons “which is so arranged as to permit ready access to the fireplace for the purpose of cleaning out the ashes and having a removable fender which is capable of being quickly and readily removed or placed in position to retain the fire and prevent the fire from rolling out the fireplace.” (Lines 47-54.) Illustration is included.
- Animal-Poke.
- Patent for a device that prevents animals such as cows from tearing down fences.
- Ant-Trap
- Patent for "a simple device of this kind which will excel the former traps in depositing the ants within the annular pan and in efficiency for convenient discharge of the trapped insects" (lines 18-22).
- Antifreezing Valve and Closet-Cistern
- Patent for "valves which will allow all the water to flow out of the popes to a position below freezing-point after each application of water, whether the water is used in a closet-cistern or drawn out of a hudrant or other application is made, and to arrange the valves so that the supply-valves will be automatically closed by water-pressure in connection with the operation of a siphon in a closet-cistern and the waste-valve will be closed by the pressure of water, siphonic action, or both, when the supply-valves are opened." (lines 18-28).
- Apparatus for Automatically Applying Germicides
- Patent for "a means for automatically applying an insecticide or germicide which will either kill or drive off the parasite, vermin, and other troublesome germ" (lines 16-19).
- Apparatus for Cooling Water.
- Patent for a water-cooling apparatus composed chiefly of a subterranean cistern and a water-supply source.
- Apparatus for Floating Vessels.
- Patent for a mechanism for raising, and hauling into deeper water, a floating vessel that has run aground.
- Apparatus for Making Cotton-Bales.
- Patent for improvement in apparatus for making cotton-bales from continuous sheets or bats by “employing only a single press and which permits the ginning and bat-forming devices to be operated continuously which accumulated the cotton in light and fleecy condition during the covering and removal of the bales, which feeds the cotton from the accumulator to the baling apparatus whenever this is desired.” (Lines 68-75) Illustration is included.
- Apparatus For Making Mattresses
- Patent for mattress making machine, which cleans, compresses, and stuffs cotton or other materials into a mattress, including illustrations.
- Attachment for Coffee or Tea Pots.
- Patent for "attachment for coffee or tea pots or other receptacles" (lines 5-7) designed to materially improve the construction of the pot or urn, whereby the same will be simple and effective and the process of treating the coffee or tea by the action of the boiling water or steam materially enhanced.
- Attachment for Lead-Pencils.
- Patent for a calendar that attaches permanently to a lead pencil and wraps securely when not being viewed.
- Attachment for Suspenders.
- Patent for suspender attachment designed to support trousers. Includes Illustration.
- Automatic Car-Coupling.
- Patent for improvements in car-couplers "wherein the link is automatically engaged with the draw-head of a second car and the link can be quickly disengaged when it needed uncoupling." (Lines 10-11) Illustration is included.
- Automatic Railway-Switch.
- Patent for a railway-switch by enabling the switch operate automatically when a train is passing by. Illustration is included.
- Automatic Regulator for Pneumatic Flues
- Patent for a regulated valve to automatically maintain air pressure in a pneumatic conveyor flue. Excessive air pressure causes a secondary valve to open and vent the pressure while at the same time impeding air flow downstream.
- Automatic Weighing-Machine
- Patent for "an automatic weighing-machine possessing simplicity, accuracy, and capable of continuous and automatic operation" (lines 13-16).
- Automatic Weighing-Machine
- Patent for new weighing machine and hopper dispensing cotton-seed meal, including illustrations
- Back-Band Hook
- Patent for "a simple and inexpensive construction of hook which is capable of ready and convenient adjustment and with which different articles of cloth, such as may be on hand, may be used as a back-band, and also so formed as to prevent cutting or tearing of the back-band with which it is used and to be quickly and positively clamped in position on the band" (lines 13-21).
- Bag-Holder
- Patent for bag holder " an improved cabinet for holding paper bags and the like articles; and the object is to construct a useful, inexpensive cabinet which will be light and compact and practical and in which bags may be placed and taken out when needed without mutilating the bags" (lines 7-13) including instructions and illustrations.
- Baking-Oven
- Patent for improvements in the design and construction of baking ovens
- Bale-Band Fastening
- Patent for "a simple and thoroughly-practical form of bale-band fastening or cotton-tie buckle easily fitted to the band and comprising positive and reliable means for effectually preventing the band from slipping or rending without injuring or fracturing the band, so that the original strength of the latter may be maintained" (lines 19-26).
- Baling-Press
- Patent for improvements in the specifics of the design and construction of a baling press.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for an improved baling press including instructions and illustrations.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for an improvement in baling-presses that uses a plunger operated press for maximum compression and minimum power.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for improvement to cylindrical baling-press for packing cotton, cotton-seed hulls, bran and similar objects into cylindrical bales, including illustrations.
- Baling-Presss
- Patent for a top loading Bailing Press with feed openings and removable sides.
- Barrel-Stand.
- Patent for improvments to barrel stands and related to the "object in view being to provide a simple, and convenient stand for holding barrels and casks and permitting the same to be readily turned with slight exertion from a vertical to a horizontal position and vice versa" (lines 9-12) including illustrations.
- Bat Compressing and Feeding Mechanism for Cotton Presses
- Patent for an improved bat system to compress a bat of cotton into a number of individual sheets or laminae and to automatically feed same after being compressed into the baling box of an ordinary cotton press for forming cubical or square bales of cotton.
- Bedstead Lock or Joint
- Patent for a bedstead lock or joint. Illustration included.
- Belt Tightener and Stretcher
- Patent for a device that stretches and tightens belts, ropes, wire, etc.
- Bicycle-Frame
- Patent for "a bicycle-frame which shall be yielding and support the motor mechanism in such manner that it shall be upheld by the part of the frame which yields to the greatest extent without adding appreciably to the rigidity of the frame" (lines 11-17).
- Bird-Trap.
- Patent for improvements to a device used to trap birds, to keep them from damaging or consuming agricultural crops..
- Bit Attachment
- Patent for "improved means for stopping runaway horses and to arrange for mounting the same upon a harness-bit so as to be under the control of the driver for convenient and effective operation when required" (lines 8-13).
- Boat-Propeller.
- Patent for a boat propeller, which is inexpensive and adaptable to small boats. The propeller can go forwards or backwards and use multiple oars.
- Boiler
- Patent for a steam boiler "to provide simple and effective means for quickly generating steam by exposing the water fully to the caloric influence of the furnace or fire in the latter through the medium of radial tubular attachments" (lines 9-14), including illustrations.
- Book
- Patent for a book with margin numbering which allows for page numbers to be visible with one glance, including illustrations.
- Bottle-Vent
- Patent for "an open-sided vent-passage at the neck of the bottle, thus permitting the formation thereof at the time the bottle is blown and rendering the construction more simple and economically produced" (lines 16-20).
- Buckle
- Patent for an improved buckle that will hold straps in place, particularly those straps with irregularly sized and spaced openings.
- Buckle
- Patent for "a fastening device for securely holding the meeting ends of straps together, and is particularly applicable to stirrup-straps, in which, because of the strain thereon, the ordinary fastener is quickly broken or the strap is torn from the same" (lines 9-15).
- Buggy-Top Support.
- Patent for buggy-top support by providing a device that can “secure the folding top of any vehicle and will protect the bows from strain and breakage, when in lowered position and will also prevent all rattling of and shocks of the folding top.” (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
- Bung and Air Connection for Beer-Kegs, &c.
- Patent for improvements in bungs and air connections for beer-kegs by using a metallic bung which has an opening (a bung-hole), “and provided atone side with a passage, the passage being interiorly threaded at its outer end, an air-tube provided with a valve and having a swiveled member exteriorly threaded and engaging the threaded portion of the passage, and the cork or stopper arranged within the inner portion of the bung-hole and closing the inner end of the passage.” (Lines 116-123, p. 3) Illustration is included.
- Bung-Extractor
- Patent for "an improved extractor for the bungs of casks and barrels of all kinds, so that the same can be quickly and conveniently removed from the bung-hole" (lines 8-11).
- Burial Apparatus
- Patent for improvements in burial apparatus, relating particularly to linings and coverings for graves, which are designed to do away with all appearance of earth or dirt in the placing of caskets or coffins in the ground.
- Burial Vault
- Patent for novel burial vault to produce an inexpensive sectional receptacle or vault capable of easy assembly and transport that forms an indestructible, air-tight chamber of continuous homogeneous structure.
- Cable-Power.
- Patent for improvements "to cable-power obtained by means of movable windlasses driven by steam or other motive power; and the object is to obtain a powerful draft for use in agricultural purposes, drawing heavy plows and reaping-machines, hauling heavy loads of ore or coal in mining, moving houses, and for drawing heavy loads of any description." (Lines 8-15) Illustration is included.